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Aug 02, 2025
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The Hanwha Eagles suffered a 2-3 come-from-behind loss against the KIA Tigers in the 2025 KBO League at KIA Champions Field in Gwangju on the 1st. He threw four fastballs to KIA Han Jun-su and allowed the final hit.
It is worth looking back on the situation of losing points in the bottom of the sixth inning when the score was 2-2.
Starting pitcher Ryu Hyun-jin threw 83 pitches until the fifth inning. The number of pitches was relatively relaxed when coming up in the sixth inning.
However, Ryu Hyun-jin quickly approached 100 as he played a 10-pitch game with Choi Hyung-woo. It was fortunate that Choi Hyung-woo was handled by a fly ball to left field.
Ryu Hyun-jin was replaced by Na Sung-bum after a double to right-center after one out.
Hanwha put left-handed pitcher Cho Dong-wook in the batter's box of left-handed batter Han Jun-su. Han Jun-su was 1 for 2 against Cho Dong-wook before this at-bat.
Cho Dong-wook was strong this season with a 0.25 batting average against left-handed hitters. The hit rate was only 0.167 when runners were on second base.
Cho Dong-wook put a fastball on the body of the first pitch. Slightly out of the zone.
He threw a fastball to the outside corner on the second pitch. Cho shook his head in the third inning and pitched. Junsu touched the 145km fast ball, but it was a foul.
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Cho Dong-wook dominated the advantageous count with two strikes and one ball.
On the fourth pitch, Hanwha catcher Choi Jae-hoon sat quite outside. Cho Dong-wook pitched a fastball again. While facing Han Jun-su, the fastest speed of 147km was taken, but the second pitch went into the course where Han Jun-su fouled the same way.
Han Junsu did not miss it twice. He hit the ball right and penetrated the left-center field. Na Sung-bum's score, who stepped home at this timely hit, became the winning point of the day.
Commentator Lee Dae-hyung diagnosed "Batters are less likely to miss the next time they see a fastball on their body and then a real pitch."
In addition, according to statistics site STATIZ, Cho Dong-wook's fastball hit rate is 0.391, while his slider's hit rate is low at 0.203.
Cho Dong-wook later struck out Oh Sun-woo. And Park Sang-won took the mound as relief again and treated Ko Jong-wook with a foul fly to the third baseman, preventing additional runs. However, Hanwha swallowed the disappointment as the bat was silent afterward.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
